GEM E-Portfolio
GEM E-Portfolio
INTRODUCTION This is an essay I wrote for my global coursework centered on Japanese popular music, I analyze how the repetition of musical history shows that society’s underlying structural frameworks can be more static than they first appear. This class taught me much of what I know about post WWII Japanese musical history and how …
INTRODUCTION During my sophomore year as part of my global coursework I took an interesting class examining Japanese popular music and its evolution since WWII. During the class I analyzed the pervasive concept of the “Japanese Woman” and her portrayal through music, noting how how it has evolved from WWII Gunka (war music) to the …
(Lyla Normand, 4.2.24, Park in suburban Kyoto ) This photograph was captured during an introspective stroll I took shortly after learning about the history of the famous Japanese cherry blossom, or Sakura, from my host father. I, like many others, only knew them from the pictures—the iconic symbols of Japan, fleeting and beautiful. I was …
INTRODUCTION This was an essay I wrote for my Pop Music Revolutionaries in Modern Japan global coursework that later snowballed into a comparative research paper for another class I took. This first music class was a deep-dive into post WWII Japanese music and its intersection in the larger political movements of the time. When taking …
INTRODUCTION This was part of a larger research project I did for one of my global coursework classes, specifically Losers of WWII, a comparative history class analyzing Japan and Germany’s post WWII political and social structures. We were given relative free reign on our final research project and so I, of course, gravitated towards music. …
